Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Garryduff (gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryduff (gowran By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66988, -7.05583
- SMR number
- KK021-045----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle NE-facing slope of glacial till that leads down to the Monefelim River. Excavated in 2008 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3852). A subcircular pit with a deposit of burnt bone over which lay a charcoal-rich layer of burnt bone and pyre material. Large pieces of human bone were present. A possible cremation pit (KK021-046---) lay c. 5m to the N and a Neolithic structure (KK021-043----) lay c. 9m to the E. (Devine and Zimny 2009; Devine 2010, 245-6, 923)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 3 December 2013
References
Devine, E. and Zimny, P. 2009 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4B – Rathclogh to Powerstown. Preliminary report. Ministerial Direction: A032. Registration No. E3852. Site AR116, Garryduff 1. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Devine, E. 2010 AR116, Garryduff. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavatios 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 245-6, no. 923. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.